Intel unveiled a few details about its next-generation Atom platform for netbooks and nettops. The current Atom platform for netbooks/nettops is composed of three chips: the Intel Atom processor, Intel’s 945GC GMCH and the ICH7 I/O hub. The UMPC version of the Atom platform is a two chip solution that uses the US15 chipset in [...]

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At Interop 2009, RMI Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance processors for communication and media rich applications announced today that Wind River plans to support RMI’s newest generation Multi-core processor family, the XLP® Processor. Announced earlier today, XLP is the industry’s highest performing processor core and Multi-core processor family driving unmatched system and performance scalability.
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Advantech’s Networks and Communications Group today announced they will be previewing a ground breaking 4U rack-mount network appliance scalable from 12 to 96 cores based on theCavium Networks OCTEON® Plus network services processor. An advanced sample of the system, named the NCP-7560, will be showcased at Interop Las Vegas in Cavium’s booth # 1943 this [...]

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IBM last week took the wraps off a technology developed by its research labs that it believes will raise the threshold for analysis of massive amounts of data in real time.Under development for six years through the IBM Research organization, System S is designed for what the company calls “perpetual analytics.”
Key to System S is [...]

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by Craig Matsumoto
RMI Corp. is adding to its multicore processor family, making some noise on the heels of a big-deal chip launch from rival Cavium Networks Inc. At the Interop show yesterday, RMI introduced its XLP line of processors based on the new EC4400 processor core. “Cores,” if you’re not down with chip lingo, are [...]

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by Brent Justice
“CPUs are an important part of gaming, it is impossible currently to play a computer game without one no matter how much you are told these processors are becoming a diminishing portion of your gaming experience. We have recently seen the Infernal Engine scale gameplay physics, not effects physics, across 8 threads of [...]

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by Rosa M. Badia
With the objective of overcoming the three walls: the memory wall, the power wall and the ILP wall, the current trends in chip fabrication have led to placing more than one processor (from now on, core) in a chip. While manufacturers are now shipping chips with a few cores (at most 4-8 [...]

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by Brooke Crothers
Intel is expected to announce details of an 8-core processor for the high-end server market next week.The chip itself will not actually ship in systems until late 2009 or early 2010.The 8-core “Nehalem-EX” Xeon processor is designed for servers that can use more than two processors (referred to as “sockets” in server argot). [...]

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by William Van Winkle, Tom’s Hardware
Some applications are linear in nature and merely want to crank as quickly as possible on a single processing thread until the cows come home. Others are built to leverage parallelism. Everything from Unreal Engine 3 to Adobe Premiere has shown the benefits of CPU-based multi-threading, but what if 4 [...]

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RapidMind, provider of the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, announced the launch of a series of web seminars examining how leading medical imaging companies are using the RapidMind platform to meet the challenge of exploding 3D/4D data volume sizes, constrained development resources, and clinical expectations for ever faster volume processing times.
“A top priority in medical [...]

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“The era of cluster computing and Multicore drives change for Windows Developers, with development shifting to Threads and Parallel. Microsoft provides solutions to meets the challenges of parallel development and accelerates the speed and flexibility of Microsoft Windows applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; and developer tools from the rich ecosystem of Microsoft partners. [...]

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New integrations, new scalability options and new data visualization options promise to bring TIBCO Spotfire 3.0 to a broader base of potential business intelligence consumers. Announced and released May 18, the 3.0 launch marks the latest in a series of major upgrades since Spotfire’s acquisition by TIBCO nearly two years ago.
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National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) today introduced NI TestStand 4.2, the latest version of the company’s test management software for developing test and validation systems. This version is designed to significantly reduce test development time and costs through enhanced integration with test modules written in almost any programming [...]

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This is going to be a walkthrough of making use of PureMVC Multicore (AS3). To help in building a PureMVC Multicore application, we are going to make use of the StateMachine utility for initial setup and configuration as well as the Pipes utility for communication between cores.
PureMVC can seem a bit overwhelming at first, but [...]

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by Philip Schiller
Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. A team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the keynote. WWDC will offer in-depth sessions on both iPhone™ OS 3.0, the [...]

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The Appro HyperPower Cluster offers a scalable computing architecture that can execute thousands of concurrent throughput parallel processing threads for mathematically intensive problems. It features Appro’s high density servers paired together with an equal number of NVIDIA® Tesla™ S1070 servers to include interconnect switches for node-to-node communication, master node, and clustering software all integrated in [...]

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Pure layers of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, also known as graphene, promises to become the successor to both silicon and gallium arsenide circuitry. Among its advantage are superior electron mobility, the ability to transport both electrons (like silicon) and holes (like gallium arsenide) and the prediction that graphene charge carriers move at a [...]

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In many embedded systems applications, developers are often caught on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, they are constrained to use the limited memory space available as efficiently as possible. But at the same time, they are required to get as much performance out of the hardware resources (including memory) as is [...]

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On Monday, May 18th, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server) will be available to MSDN Subscribers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads.
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CAPS entreprise announces new Parallel Programming Week 2 (PPW2) that will take place from June, 22nd to July, 1st 2009.PPW2 gathers four reputed speakers who will open the event with a first day plenary session discussing multicore challenges, followed by 5 intensive developers’ workshops focused on parallel computing.
Monday executive networking day will be co-presented by [...]

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